There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOOurselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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